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Salmon Protocol
- jack1243star 9y agoThis is also one of the protocols behind Mastodon, which talks to OStatus instances.
- daenney 9y agoThough OStatus is going away[0] (eventually) in favour of ActivityPub. [0]: https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422
- rektide 9y agoActivityPub is in. It is almost certainly the path forwards for Mastodon. https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422
- pc2g4d 9y agoI just went to check out Mastadon and learned it calls posts "toots". To me, that means "farts". That's going to be a struggle.
- cmiller1 9y agoSeems like this would be fantastic if we could get more news aggregator sites onboard...
- pavel_lishin 9y agoI'm not convinced this would be a good thing. Some of the sites I post on, I do so because of the community. Imagine Hacker News and Reddit both implementing this, and Reddit commentary leaking here.
- andrewflnr 9y agoFor some of the smaller, focused subs, that could actually be great. r/programming less so, I'll grant.
- aloisdg 9y agoYou should be able to ignore them. For example, I use reddit comments on youtube. I can filter them by subreddit or rollback to youtube if I want to.
- r00fus 9y agoExactly. The signal/noise ratio would drop as camps warred each other on the threads.
- hultner 9y agoI love the name, the salmon jumps upstream.
- mark212 9y agoAnd always returns to its origin, no matter how far away
- xellisx 9y agoDoesn't this kind of fall in line with with a previous discussion? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15244596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15244596
- ericfrederich 9y agoI remember something like this around the 2000's or maybe early 90s. I think it was a browser bar. Of course it was centralized, but the idea was there.
- dec0dedab0de 9y agoThis sounds like a nightmare. Every time I see the comments on the internet at large I feel homesick for HN.
- teilo 9y agoSo... The Salmon of Doubt?
- huhtenberg 9y agoAt the risk of stating the obvious, it's not a salmon on their logo - http://www.salmon-protocol.org/_/rsrc/1472778652703/config/customLogo.gif?revision=1 http://www.salmon-protocol.org/_/rsrc/1472778652703/config/c...
- clort 9y agoIts not so far off a stylised version? I mean, kind of round head, two eyes, two sets of side fins, a dorsal fin and tail. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNj0l0rVEAAdj2q.png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNj0l0rVEAAdj2q.png
- singingboyo 9y agoThe logo looks very much like a koi fish to me, though I'm not sure I could articulate why. Though I think the color makes it salmon-y enough to pass muster.
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- twsted 9y agoRSS and something like this and we can do without social behemoths.
- rektide 9y agoAs per the article, Salmon was usually a <link rel="salmon" href="..."> inside an RSS feed. The real twist is that it was all created as a set of standard, open social protocols to power a social behemoths new product- Google Buzz.
- hawski 9y agoOne of the things that people have against e-mail is it's reliance on base64. Then I see this protocol that just encodes content with base64. It baffles me. Am I missing something?
- foota 9y agoWhat do people have against base 64? Just the encoding inefficiency?
- jandrese 9y agoThat and you can't read the plain text without first running it through a decoder I think.
- rektide 9y agoMore generally - wrapping the actual content in an encoded envelope was a horrible awful design that was actively hostile to anyone interested in working with the protocol. What it grants is the ability to sign any content. Which is a pretty important friction point to get past. But I still really don't like it.
- lorddoig 9y agoPractically speaking, this doesn't seem tremendously useful an idea. Global comment threads are most often a universally repulsive mix of incompatible opinions (case in point: YouTube.) I'll never allow comments on my blog, for instance, because I want to encourage discussions on fora where like-minded (or at least matched intellect) individuals can have a constructive discussion, as happens here on HN. What would be useful, I think, would be a standard that openly links content to where it is being discussed. I think this would lead to a great surge in discoverability, in terms of both content and communities.
- pc2g4d 9y ago"Echo chamber"? Maybe if we couldn't split into filter bubbles, we'd be forced to figure out how to talk to people unlike us over the long run.
- lorddoig 9y agoI wouldn't describe HN as an echo chamber. It has elements, of course, but the quality of discourse here is really quite high and respectful. I actually read HN; I don't read YouTube comments, and I wouldn't even if that's all there was.